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Describes two expeditions: one in 1817 up the Mississippi River to the Falls of St. Anthony; and a second in 1823 westward from Philadelphia to the Red River of the North, down the Red, and east along the old Canadian canoe route, the Great Lakes, and portions of the Erie Canal. Long's journals are especially valuable for their firsthand observations of the Midwest and its people in the early 1800s, with references to many Indian peoples, including the Assiniboine, Dakota, Iroquois, Menominee, Ojibway, Osage, Ottawa, ...
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Describes two expeditions: one in 1817 up the Mississippi River to the Falls of St. Anthony; and a second in 1823 westward from Philadelphia to the Red River of the North, down the Red, and east along the old Canadian canoe route, the Great Lakes, and portions of the Erie Canal. Long's journals are especially valuable for their firsthand observations of the Midwest and its people in the early 1800s, with references to many Indian peoples, including the Assiniboine, Dakota, Iroquois, Menominee, Ojibway, Osage, Ottawa, Potawatomi, Sauk, Winnebago, and Yanktonai.
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Near fine. 1st Edition. xii, 407pp. Octavo with tan cloth boards and silver lettering on spine. Map endpapers and B&W maps and illustrations. Dust jacket has wear to front and minor chipping along edges. near fine Accounts of two of Long's expeditions. First, his journal of his 1817 journey up the Mississppi River and back down to Fort Belle Fontaine on the Missouri. Secondly, his journal of 1823 from Philadelphia across Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Manitoba and Ontario.

Good in Corner Clipped jacket. pp. xii, 407, although this is ex-lib, the book is in nice condition, with a card pocket on the verso of the front free endpaper, and a small label at the inside corner of the half-title page. 8vo.

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